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There's one thing to be said in favour of nine-to-five office jobs: the hours are amenable. No crawling out of bed well before the sun is up for your average corporate cubicle jockey. However, a life of pre-dawn trips to the market is just what Florence Kennedy chose to take on when she quit an office job to start her own business in East London...
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In the first four months of 2015, around 1600 refugees died making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean sea from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa. The continuing human tragedy moved Chudamani Clowes to consider migration,...
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I haven't had a film poster on my wall since the millennium, but I might well have to make room for one of these beauties from the Film4 Summer Screen Posters event at Somerset House. The exhibits are new commissions by a clutch of top international...
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Lauded London-based design studio Spin — Channel 4; Nike; Design Museum; Photographers’ Gallery — are having a monograph published by lauded publisher Unit Editions. A 520-page monograph ... laud! Going under the title of Spin: 360º, the...
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When the weather's hot, and when it's not. When you've just broken up with your significant other and you're feeling like a rom-com cliché. When you need to shut the kids up. When you're feeling like a big kid yourself. High days and holidays,...
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As we continue to steamroll our way through the unpredictability of the great British summer, one thing we can count on is the culinary high jinks supplied by the guys at Street Feast, who — having transformed disused Tube stations, breweries and...
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Music photography isn't what it used to be. No more J Jonah Jameson-type magazine editors, chewing on a cigar and sending the staff photographers out with a cast-iron brief of what was required for the next issue. They've mostly all had heart...
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At the end of August, around 70,000 people will convene in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and watch as a neon-lit, wooden effigy measuring 100ft becomes a towering inferno. The Burning Man festival has grown in every conceivable way since its beginnings...
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This probably won't please our Yorkshire readers, but did you know that Tommyfield Market in Oldham claims to be the site of Britain's first fish and chip shop? As something to boast about, that's pretty good — so good that there's a pub all the...
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What has Kim Kardashian's arse and a big juicy burger got in common? You want to take a bite out of them? Oh, I do say. WRONG. London's Yeah! Burger claim their famed Scotch Ness Monster scotch egg burger as internet-breaking; the term that KK's bum...
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After its recent diner-drama, which saw a fire rip through, and destroy, the majority of its Shoreditch location, the neon lights of street food market Dinerama are switched back on today (13 August); reuniting the people of London in a revelry of...
London
With Frida Kahlo staring down from the wall, and painted “calavera” (skulls) from the Day of the Dead festival watching over the bar, it can mean only one thing — Mexican food. The country's most famous female artist casts a watchful eye over...
City Notes
Opened in September 2025, HYLL brings a new interpretation of country hospitality to the Cotswolds, a hotel rooted in its landscape, designed to slow the pace and dim the noise. Set within a restored 16th century manor house, the 26 room property...
City Notes
Sircle Collection, the international hospitality group behind a growing portfolio of hotels and restaurants, introduces The Cover Vienna this November, a private members’ club in the city’s 7th District. Set within the Max Brown Hotel, the club...
City Notes
In the centre of Bergen, a new chapter has opened for a concrete landmark designed by Egill Reimers in 1920. Once home to bakeries, offices, shops and social services, the building has been reimagined by architecture studio LOCAL as Bergen Camping,...
City Notes
On Barcelona’s recently beautified Avinguda Diagonal, a new kind of café experience has arrived, one that has already piqued the curiosity of both locals and visitors. Jaç Hi-Fi Café, designed by Isern Serra Studio for owners Ligia and Arnau,...
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Planning a wedding involves more than choosing colors and menus. It also means deciding how to spend your money. With so many expenses competing for attention, it’s easy to get pulled in multiple directions. But if you approach the process with...
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Florida welcomed a record 143 million visitors in 2024, and many of them booked stays in the state’s 65,000-plus short-term rentals that stretch from Pensacola to Key West. If you own one of those homes, you’ve probably juggled midnight leak...
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Joint pain from arthritis can make even simple movements feel like a challenge. Many people face a tough choice between using a cream that targets pain at the surface or taking a pill that works throughout the body. Each method provides benefits,...
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Ever notice how some people seem to effortlessly achieve gorgeous hairstyles while others struggle for hours to recreate the same look? The secret often comes down to understanding hair texture, a fundamental aspect of hair care that many overlook....